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Blackout Halts Venezuela’s Largest Refinery

Refinery Also Site of Venezuela’s Deadliest Oil Industry Accident in 2012

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Ezequiel Minaya

Nov. 5, 2014 2:32 a.m. ET

Caracas—A power failure temporarily halted Venezuela’s largest oil refinery late Tuesday at the same site of the country’s deadliest oil industry accident in 2012.

State oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, known as PdVSA, said a “strange” malfunction occurred at 9:10 p.m. local time at the Amuay refinery in the northwestern state of Falcon. The facility is part of the Paraguana Refining complex, which has a total processing capacity...